I saw you responded, "possibly", to the question of marriage. I'm about to propose to my significant other of several years and I wanted to share....
We've both known we are each other's "match" for some time but we joke that we have not just baggage but "baggage trains". She has 3 children, I have 2 (yep, Brady Bunch) and we've both been burned, and swore, "never again."
I was going to propose last week when we went cabin camping/canoeing out of state. She sensed I would and started to get nervous. Then we went on a hike that became potentially life-threatening. We didn't know the area well and found ourselves 7 miles in the wilderness with 16oz of water each on a day that reached 105* (long story, dumb moves). Although she's 13 years my junior and regularly matches or surpasses me in stamina, she was the one in the most distress.
Over several hours we worked our way back to safety, her nearly passing out on several occasions. She never stopped perspiring but had a severe headache, tunnelvision and lost her hearing at times. I realized we had to help ourselves as we never saw another person and somehow that kept me together. We were finally able to drink water from a nearby lake (a lot that I fetched two plastic bottles at a time) and make it to a highway, hitching a ride the last couple of miles.
She says that experience removed any reservations she had had about remarrying and knows I'm the one she can trust (literally) with her life. She also said before the trip she had prayed that GOD would do just that. Of course, she never dreamed or desired that experience to do so.
"The answers are within you" (can't remember who). Unfortunately, so is the bullshit.
